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Free toolConvert between contact hours, continuing education units (CEUs) and course minutes.
This is an estimate, not legal or compliance advice.
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Try CredentialPilot free for 14 days →Boards and accreditors do not all use the same hour. Nursing contact hours accredited through ANCC use 60 minutes. Accounting CPE under the NASBA standards counts 50 minutes as one credit, and some other boards also use a 50-minute hour. Your certificate usually states the hours already converted. Use this page when a course lists only minutes or CEUs and your board asks for hours.
Some boards say "credit hours" or "CE credits" and mean contact hours. Others accept college coursework at a set number of hours per semester or quarter credit. Read your board's definition before converting, then track the result against your requirement with the CE hours calculator.
One CEU equals 10 contact hours under the IACET definition, so 0.1 CEU equals 1 contact hour.
30 contact hours equals 3 CEUs.
It depends on the board or accreditor. ANCC nursing contact hours use 60 minutes, and NASBA accounting CPE counts 50 minutes as one credit. Check what your board uses.
Not always. Many boards use "CE credit" to mean one contact hour, while a CEU is ten contact hours. Check the unit on your certificate and in your board's rule.